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NCRI WOMEN'S COMMITTEE

Works extensively with Iranian women outside the country and maintains a permanent contact with women inside Iran. The Women’s Committee is actively involved with many women's rights organizations and NGO's and the Iranian diaspora. The committee is a major source of much of the information received from inside Iran with regards to women. Attending UN Human Rights Commission meetings and other international or regional conferences on women’s issues, and engaging in a relentless battle against the Iranian regime's misogyny are part of the activities of members and associates of the committee.

Many speakers endorsed the struggle of Iranian Resistance for democracy and women’s rights under the leadership of opposition leader Maryam Rajavi.

Women in Iran have been in the frontline in the fight against Islamic fundamentalism which the theocratic regime imposed on the Iranian society by hijacking the 1979 revolution. They have kept the freedom movement alive through all these years with great courage and enormous personal sacrifice. Thousands of women, including girls as young as 15 or 16, as well as pregnant women have been executed by this regime for refusing the theocratic rule.

During the years of the presidency of Hassan Rouhani, at least 82 women have been hanged.

The Iranian regime’s constitution puts women at the disposal of men almost as a captive or a sexual slave. Girls can be deprived of education at the age of 13 and even younger. Women are banned from studying in many fields and the Iranian regime’s laws deprive women from artistic activities as a source of income. Women are not allowed to sing in public. They are not allowed to play in orchestras and perform in concerts. They are not allowed into sports stadiums where men are playing.

Despite the fact that more than half of the country’s university graduates are women, there is no female minister in the cabinet of Rouhani and women’s presence in Iranian Parliament is only 5.8 percent. The Iranian regime ranks 140 in a list of 144 countries, according to World Economic Forums Global Gender Gap Report 2017.

Since we have an Islamic fundamentalist dictatorship in Iran which is by nature based on humiliation of women, the campaign for women rights can achieve its goals only when we have a change of regime in Iran. The recent uprising also confirmed that the people of Iran do not believe in this so-called reformist-hardline game. They want a complete change.

The Iranian opposition PMOI and the coalition of (NCRI) are led by women. It was interesting to hear that the Iranian regime blamed this opposition to be responsible for leading the recent protests. The European governments, including our government in Belgium, as well as the EU, should play a more active role in supporting Iranian people’s struggle for freedom. Our relations with Iran must be conditional on improvement of human rights, women’s rights and to a halt to executions.